For the best Cameroonian cuisine, you would have to be crazy not to try something from the street stalls. The hotels try there best to emulate local cuisine but the street stalls do a much better job. Brochettes grilled over charcoal, stuffed with bread roll accompanied with a salad and dressing goes for about US$1.50 in the street stalls and US$5.50 per serving in the hotels. Also worth eating is the grilled chicken or fish served with mashed potatoes. There are many restaurants in the big cities with varying qualities of service.
The international hotels usually have bars that stay open as long as there are customers. Nightclubs are popular in Douala and Yaounde - some attached to hotels.
Shopping
You’ll be spoilt for choice if you are shopping for souvenirs in Cameroon - painted gourds, leather goods, masks, jewellery, grisgris (necklace charms), woodcarvings and other indigenous crafts and textiles. Craft markets dot the cities and you can watch the artisans at work in some of them.